How to Add Cash Gifts to Your Giftful Wishlist

Every birthday or holiday, someone asks: “What should we get the kids?”

That’s one reason Giftful is so useful. You can keep a running wishlist for your kids all year, adding toys, books, and other ideas whenever you think of them. When birthdays, Christmas, or another occasion comes around, there’s already a list to share with family.

But what if you’d also like to give relatives the option to contribute toward your child’s future?

You can add cash gifts to Giftful by creating a free financial gift registry on Greatest Gift and adding the link to your Giftful wishlist. It sits alongside the usual gift ideas, so relatives can choose what feels right.

Can You Add Cash Gifts to Giftful?

Yes, by adding a link to a Greatest Gift registry. Giftful is built for sharing wishlists, but it doesn’t have its own built-in cash-gift checkout. To receive a money gift, you can add a link to an external page that handles the gift.

That’s where Greatest Gift comes in. Create a financial gifting page for your child and share what you’re building toward: college savings, their first investments, or a future adventure. Family and friends can send a personal message with their money gift, all in one place.

Giftful helps relatives find the option. Greatest Gift lets them actually send the monetary gift.

How to Add Greatest Gift to Your Giftful Wishlist

Here’s how to set it up:

1. Create your Greatest Gift registry. Go to Greatest Gift and create a free financial gift page for your child. Add a photo and any goals you’d like family to give toward.

2. Copy your registry link. Once the page is ready, copy the link to your child’s registry.

3. Add it to Giftful. Open your child’s Giftful wishlist and add a new item using that link.

4. Upload an image and give it a name. In our test, we needed to provide the image ourselves. You can reuse a photo from your Greatest Gift registry or download one of your goal images and upload it to Giftful. A simple name like “Contribute to Emma’s Future” works well.

5. Put it near the top and share your list. Your Greatest Gift page now appears alongside the other items on your child’s wishlist.

Anyone who’d rather give money can click through to Greatest Gift and send their gift there. Everyone else can keep choosing from the books, toys, and other things on your Giftful list.

One Wishlist for Gifts Today and the Future

A parent recently told us how they use Giftful: they keep year-round wishlists for their children, and relatives use those lists for birthdays and Christmas. They added Greatest Gift near the top so their family could give toward the kids’ futures, too.

“This provides an easy way for relatives to give toward their futures instead of just buy ‘stuff.’”

We love that approach. Some people enjoy choosing the perfect present. Others would rather give $25 or $50 toward something a child might enjoy years from now. Both are thoughtful ways to show you care.

And when a child’s wishlist includes a financial gift option, every birthday or holiday becomes another opportunity to build a little more toward those goals.

Give Your Family Both Options

You don’t need to replace traditional gifts or make anyone feel they should give money instead. Just make room for another kind of gift.

Keep Giftful for the toys, books, and birthday surprises. Add Greatest Gift for the possibilities ahead.

Create your free Greatest Gift registry and add it to your Giftful wishlist.